MINDFUL MOVEMENT AND YOGA CLASSES

Corporate Yoga For Office Based Employees

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Office yoga classes are now offered by more and more organisations that care about employee wellbeing. Staff yoga is not about poses that are impossible to achieve or going to yoga studios that people can find intimidating. In fact, it isn’t about physical fitness or flexibility at all. It’s a fun and engaging way to reduce stress, increase energy and build mental clarity.

Gym membership and running clubs are great, but yoga is proven to have greater benefits than similar aerobic exercises.

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Staff yoga is a teambuilding tool used by many clients as it unites people in a common goal, to become more balanced, clear-minded and creative.

Each week we run most of our employee yoga classes in London and the south east but we do look after corporate yoga clients all over the UK. Since the coronavirus pandemic, we have also been serving all our clients online, as far afield as New York and Chile!

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How Corporate Yoga London Helps Relieves Stress

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There is good stress and there is bad stress. A little stress can help propel us to become high achievers, but too much stress kills our capacity to be imaginative, to make good decisions. It can cause damage to our health: at the last count, 53% of all lost working days were due to stress. That was before the coronavirus pandemic.

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There are many things in life that can lead to stress, a few of the main ones include relationships, finances, health, sleep, insecurity, trauma. Then there are specific work stresses including deadlines, workload, targets, clients, colleagues, environment, travel, long hours. And of course work stress and life stress are interwoven. We spend more waking hours at work than we do at home so it makes sense to do things at work to relieve stress.

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Office yoga wellbeing is a simple AND PROVEN way to help staff release the build up of stress that can lead to below par performance and ultimately, ill health. Workplace exercise classes can be gentle, done in a chair and in work clothes. Or they can be more vigorous, more like what you would find in a gym. A key element is to make it easy for staff to participate and to work within their physical capacity. It’s not a competitive sport, despite what you might see in yoga studios!

In recent months, the lockdown has resulted in higher levels of stress than “normal” and home has become the workplace for many. Back and neck pain complaints are commonplace, as people’s home working set up is not as ergonomic as in the office. Thanks to online platforms such as Zoom, workplace exercise has been taking place at home.

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The Benefits Of Workplace Yoga or Yoga in Office

The number one cause (53%) of work days lost is stress. Yoga is proven to reduce stress, so at the most basic level, workplace yoga classes have a positive impact on the bottom line. But it goes a lot deeper as yoga also enhances mood: a happier workforce creates a more positive atmosphere and when done in groups, can generate a culture of good teamwork.

At different points in the work day, it is normal to feel a little tired or sluggish, and this is where the energising benefits of yoga for employees can really be felt. Furthermore, scientific research confirms the cognitive benefits as yoga with improvements to memory, concentration, creativity and decision-making.

Office Yoga Classes London

There is a particular intensity to working in most large cities, which is why yoga classes in London are so popular. If you search for yoga classes London, you will find a good selection in studios and gyms, choosing from the many different styles such as Hatha, Yin, Ashtanga and Vinyasa. The style of yoga we teach is called Kundalini, which is similar to others and yet quite distinctive. It is a blend of physical postures, meditation, breathing techniques and visualisation. It focuses on mental strength rather than physical prowess so is suitable for all ages and abilities. We chose Kundalini because we have seen it deliver great results among a broad range of people.

Yoga benefits are both physical and mental. It can help you build strength, flexibility and stamina, to increase vitality and energy. It has been scientifically proven to reduce stress, improve mood and brain function for learning and memory.

Being from London, that’s where we started building our client base, running classes in clients’ offices or using other suitable venues. But we now provide face to face classes around the UK as well as online classes around the world.